UrbanTide, in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council and Snook, is delighted to have been shortlisted for the 2018 Digital Technology National Awards in the category of Transformation Innovation Through Data, sponsored by The DataLab.

Sharing of real-time IoT data is the holy grail for Smart Communities projects. It maximises the potential of these extremely valuable data sources. The Smartline project is using UrbanTide's USMART Platform to do just that!

The University of Strathclyde and UrbanTide, with an advisory team including members from FlyingBinary, NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and the Digital Health Institute (DHI), set out to develop a Massive-Open-Online-Course (MOOC) and Online Training course combination.

By the year 2050, it’s estimated that two-thirds of the population will be living in urban areas. As a result, city infrastructures will have to change dramatically in order to cope with demand.Thankfully, developments like artificial intelligence, the internet of things (IoT) and big data will lead to smart cities. Cities that think and react like a human brain. Here are Innovate UK’s predictions for the future of the city.

UrbanTide has been appointed as the single supplier of open data training services for the Irish public sector. Read on and find out more about this unique and exciting project and how Ireland plans to foster an even stronger open data ecosystem.

Learn more about the two new smart cities standard developed in collaboration by the Cities Standards Institute. Standards are important, and often not as dry as they sound at first. Especially in a fast evolving market such as smart cities where there are a lot of people and organisations advancing a lot of developments in the name of smart.

We have been part of the EiE family that includes mentors, supporters, professional advisors, investors - and very importantly a wide range of current and past participants since 2015. This year, however, EiE will be an extra special event for us. We have been selected, among 12 top tech companies in Scotland, to present UrbanTide and USMART in a 6-minute pitch during the 2 day event

A great crowd of a 100 data enthusiasts gathered for our ‘How data transforms cities and communities’ event at the end of March, as part of #DataFest17. We were seeking answers, with the help of our speakers and the participants, to how data and digital technologies can help solve the challenges caused by the rapid urbanisation transforming our cities and communities.

At the end of last year, we told you about our smart city vision for Glasgow. We are now back with more updates as some of the master plans and designs are starting to take shape. To sum it up, the aim is to create a more walkable, greener, more liveable city centre and a truly 24-hour city.

USMART has a pioneering pricing plan. We know that opening up data can be a resource intensive process. With our unique freemium pricing scheme, we want to change this by enabling organisations to begin opening up their data for free.

The goal of open data training targeting the public sector is to equip front-line public sector warriors with the necessary skills and knowledge to tackle current and future challenges, where appropriate, with a data forward approach. The vision is to enable public sector organisations to take advantage and to fully utilise and unlock the value of their data, both open and closed.